Apparently, this is a major victory of the patent system. This, this right here, this is what the patent system has come to. This is the destructive effect it's having on this once beautiful industry. Thanks to trolls like Apple and Microsoft, basic, elemental functionality is being removed from devices people already own.

What are you going on about?? Seriously if you can't or won't indicate who you were addressing then why should I or anybody else have to do detective work to find out who it might be? I'm guessing that your original statement was just a blanket generalisation without anyone in mind. And you know that's fine, really...but you should just say so instead of getting defensive.